The name means ‘three milks’, and no, not full cream, semi, and skinned. It makes use of the yummiest of dairy: condensed milk, evaporated milk, full cream milk, and thick luscious cream all soaked up by a vanilla sponge, topped with more deliciously high-fat cream. It’s nowhere near as sweet as it sounds; it has the comfort of milk, but with a hidden layering of flavours from the vanilla and combination of dairies, none of which ever leave you with that sickeningly sweet feeling you associate with condensed milk.
Ingredients
1 cup plain flour
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
5 large eggs, separated
1 cup sugar, divided into ¾ and ¼
1 vanilla bean, or 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ cup full cream milk (I use Clover Vanilla milk)
1 can evaporated milk
1 can condensed milk
¼ cup thick cream
¾ cup thick cream to top
Icing sugar
Strawberries or any other topping of your choice
Method
Preheat your oven to 180°c. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt.
Beat the egg yolks with the ¾ cup of sugar until pale, then stir in the vanilla and milk. If using a vanilla bean, scrape out the seeds and discard the actual bean.
Beat the eggs whites to soft peaks, add the ¼ cup of sugar and beat to stiff peaks.
Fold the flour into the eggs yolks. Fold the egg whites in the flour batter.
Pour into a well-greased dish and bake for 35-45 minutes.
When an inserted toothpick comes out clean, turn the cake out and leave to cool completely.
Mix together the condense milk, evaporated milk, and ¼ cup of cream.
Prick the surface of the cake well, making sure to prick close to the edges. Pour about 1 cup of the sauce over the cake slowly, allowing it to absorb the liquid. Make sure to pour right to the sides.
Leave to sit for 10 minutes, then pour over as much more sauce as you feel necessary. The cake should still hold its shape and soak up all the sauce, and not be sitting in a puddle.
Whip the remaining cream with about one tablespoon of icing sugar, and spread all over the cake, don’t neglect the sides!
Dust with icing sugar and serve as is, or with fresh fruit on the side. Some will be tempted to crumble a flake or some form of chocolate over, but personally I think mixing chocolate with this cake is sacrilege!
Enjoy servings one through three!
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| This is my gran on her second helping and she's diabetic, so you know it's gotta be good! |
1 comment:
So now we have PROOF of Gran cheating on her diet! Going to show her this when next she lectures Bev and I about what we eat.... Yay!
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